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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1916)
THE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER ."5, 1916. BUDGET RAIDS MAY SET OFF FIREWORKS flalv-RinpInu Fartinn Ic Fy. pected to Seek Revenge V nn Cnnnnil Mainritv. DALY MAY REDUCE LIGHTS MILITARY MEN WHO ARE MENTIONED AS LIKELY CANDIDATES FOR COLONEL OF THIRD OREGON INFANTRY. Further Meetings 'Will Be Lilvely, Kay Watchers, Who Note Race for Title of "Watchdog of V Treasury of City. Lively doings are In store in the City Council chamber this week over the 1917 budget figures. Each individual Commissioner is sharpening his ax for the fray which is to come o-er the 6 per cent general cut forced down the throats of Commissioners Daly and Bigelow by Mayor AJbee and Commis sioners Dieck and Baker. Somebody is going- to get hurt finan cially and somebody else politically. The financial sufferings will drop on the shoulders of many employes. The political sufferings will fall on some of the Commissioners who are receiv ing credit from City Hall attaches for staging economy propaganda in the interest of their political futures. The big fireworks display which Is to come this week was touched off on J-'riday when Commissioners Daly and Bigelow, under Daly leadership, were cocked and primed to pull a. big econ omy programme in departments other than their own. Promoters Get Own Remedy. This was to come In spite of the fact that they, with the other Commission ers, had gone down the line and cut out everything In every department that looked "cutable." Commissioner Dleck, who was to be one of the prime losers by this arrange ment, blossomed forth with a real economy programme that sank the gaff into the departments of Mr. Daly and Mr. Bigelow along with the others. To have economy shoved down their own throats was a horse of a different color nnd revenge from the Daly-Blgelow fac tion is expected at ensuing budget meetings. Where the trouble will end Is purely a matter of conjecture. The economy title, so much coveted In pre election times, still hangs high and no effort will be spared on the part of some to gee it- 11 is a vaauaoie asseu Padded Budgets Denied. The Daly-Bigelow faction Is herald ing forth to tneir constituency mat tne Dieck, Albee and Baker budgets were padded and that their own were not and that, therefore, the three could spare 6 per cent cuts while the others could not. in that case. They assert that every .budget was gone over carefully and every possible item trimmed out by all 1h 7rmTnisKioners n nrt that then the proposed programme of gigantic slices in "the other fellow's budget" was pre sented by Mr. Daly and Mr. Bigelow. Having had the economy title snatched out of his hands. Commisslon- . er Daly Is expected by those watching the tussle to make another run for it. It is now expected at the City Hall that he will attempt once more to stage 'his cutting programme in "the other fellow's department," or he may even go to the bat with a programme of till another 5 per cent cut. Reduction of Lights Rumored. Revenge may also pop up in the form of cuts where some of the Commis sioners do not want it. Mr. Daly may make his entire 5 per cent cut in his -department in the item of street light- . Jng. It is whispered about the City Hall that this is what he has in mind. -although he has not publicly said as " much. The rest of the Commissioners are trying to save all- the employes they can out of the proposition. Each is cutting as deeply as possible into the appropriations for supplies and mate rials and leaving as much as possible of the salary appropriations. Even at that, vast sums will have to be lopped off the salary columns. It is said the programme will necessitate the cutting out of something like 20 ' policemen and detectives and a large number of firemen. Mayor Albee said yesterday that he has not been able to get the pro gramme mapped out yet. He -says he intends to try to save enough out of the remains to give the firemen their one day off In five in place of one day in six, as at present. He says they have earned this and should have it Concerts May Its Eliminated. The cutting means that next year the city will do nothing. Street main tenance will have to be given up al- ' most entirely. It may be necessary to cut out concerts In the parks, and either to cut out part of the play grounds and swimming tanks and park Improvements or cut down the season to a few weeks. There will be no new construction, police and fire protection will be ma terially cut down and all the other ac tivities of the city will be curtailed to a minimum. Among the most serious propositions that may be eliminated is that of the O.-W. R. & X. grade crossings on the East Side, a project involving an ex penditure of about $800,000. most of which would be spent by the O.-W. R. & N. Company. City Will Hare o Cub for Months. Also it means the city will get far ther in the hole financially than it is . TT... - ,11.: J-1 C.-t U L. V.. 11111 j 1 1 1-lLllL V 1) uu 1 L1VJ II 3 there will be about two months at the beginning of next year that there will be no money to pay salaries or bills of the city. Provision is made in the budget as It now stands for making up part of this deficit, which dates back to the time , $300,000 a year In liquor license rev enue was lost. But the way the thing is going now this money allowed for making up the deficit will be eaten up next year by special appropriations which will be necessary to keep up the city s activities. In the appropriations for the present '.. year provision was made for wiping out part of this deficit. But during the year the money has almost all been . used up by emergency expenditures, nnd it is thought the same will hap . pen next year under the present ar rangement. There was much complaint at the beginning of the commission govern ment administration In Portland in l'.)13 about needed things in the way of expenditures having been passed along ; by the former administration. Among the special things mentioned was in sufficient sums to provide adequate sinking funds for bonds. At the pres .tut rate the next administration will find 200 or 300 per cent more "passed - dlone burdens than the present ad J ministration got from the old adminis tration. i.JF't'-w-"'"'1n'N ji ) '-s 1 4 hi & y . .-. ' ) ' ' f JS WIRE TO FLASH PLEA Long-Distance Phone Call Is to Convert Western Women. EAST TO TALK FOR HUGHES Plea Will Be Last for Election of Republican and Extension of Suffrage to Unenfranchised Sisters by Victory. The last plea in the present campaign of the Eastern women to the Western women, asking the latter to vote ror Mr. Hughes and thereby for a step in the way of Federal equal suffrage, will be made tonight when, from Chicago, Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch will speak over long-distance telephone to Oregon women, bidding them cast their vote for the Republican nominee. The mezzanine floor of the Multno mah Hotel has been fitted up with a number of telephone receivers and half dozen transmitters. A committee ol Portland women, who although former ly of Wilson leanings are now avowea supporters of Mr. Hughes on the broad principle of woman's rights, has been selected to respond to Mrs. Blatch. Prominent Women on Committee. This committee includes, among oth ers. Miss Emma Wold, aiiss liertruae Talbot, Miss Cornelia Cook. Mrs. w. J. Hawkins, Mrs. Andre Fouilhoux, Mrs. Lewis McArthur, Mrs. Woodruff. Mrs. Hepburn and Mrs. Mary Gertrude Kendall, the last named a Maryland representative of the Woman's Party, who has been working in Oregon with Miss Margaret Whittemore. of Michi gan, in the interest of Mr. Hughes and equal suffrage prospects. The ceremony will begin at 6 o clock Portland time. The affair is open to the public, and a large gathering of women is expected. Receivers have been installed to accommodate a good num ber, and the transcontinental conver sation will be made public. Mrs. Blatch, who has been actively identified with the major woman movements of the country for a number of years, will send a special message of hope to the Oregon women. The telephone conversation prac tically winds up the work of the Worn an's party in Oregon, as the representa tives here are sanguine that Oregon will return a successful vote for Mr. Hughes. The party has enlisted in its ranks the last few months a large num ber of Oregon women who were openly advocates of Wilson's re-election, but who have swung to the Republican standard bearer on the suffrage Issue as paramount to others at this time, from the women's viewpoint. Oregon Women Kot Members. The Woman's party does not number in its membership, however, the Ore gon women, because the party is com posed of women who belong in the states where the suffrage right has not yet been granted. The party leaders have made it clear to the Western women that the party was not organ lzed to dictate but to appeal to th W estern and suffrage state women. The Democratic party leaders told the suffrage petitioners that they did not believe the women were to he reck oned with as a political force, and the A t ' Vs f I t v - . " 'I i f , t 1 kV:' Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, Who Will Talk From Chicago to Portland Tonight In the Inter est of the Election of Mr. Hughes. Jonathan Rollins, of Alton. H-, ape 7f. In successfully driving his new auto V TTiobilo. He drove to Dover a few days ago, ' which was the first tlms he had viit the - place In 40 fears. Woman's party was organized to prove that they were. For that reason, while the party numbers many Democratic women, it has lent its influence to piling up a telling vote for Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes la the candidate who has come out in the open and espoused the rights of women. Philadelphia school children, by contribut lng pennies, have endowed a bed in a hos pital for consumptives. i - 1. .--' 1 74a 4 A I I? y. I BATTERY ASKS, WHY? Oregon Troops on Border Are Waxing Impatient. GUARD ELECTION SET Three Officers Mentioned for Colonel of Third Oregon. NOVEMBER 15 IS DATE Captain K. P. Williams and Lieuten ant-Colonels McAlexander and 3fay Are Suggested First Two Regular Officers. General orders for tho election of successor to Colonel Clenard Mc Laughlin, late Colonel of the Third Ore gon Infantry, who has been ordered back to duty as Captain with the Sev enth United States Infantry, a part of General Pershing's command in Mex ico, were issued yesterday by Major W. W. Wilson, acting Adjutant-General of the Oregon National Guard. The election will be held at 8:30 P. M. at the Armory, in this city, Wednes day. November 15. Field officers and Captains of the Third infantry are eligible to vote. Colonel Creed C. Ham mond has been designated inspector of election. Three officers are being mentioned as possible successors to Colonel Mc Laughlin, and these are the only names that have so far appeared. Friends of Cafrtaln Kenneth P. Williams, United States Army, who has been Inspector instructor on duty with the Oregon Na tional Guard, and who made a notable record during the mobilization of the Oregon National Guard for border serv ice, has been besought by a number of officers to become a candidate, but he thinks it will be impossible for him to do so as he Is likely to be ordered East. Lieutenant-Colonel John L. May, of the Third Oregon Infantry, will be a candidate. It is expected, for tho post Just vacatedi by tne departure of Colo nel McLaughlin. He is well known In Portland, and his many friends in the Guard will, it Is expected, give him loyal support. Lieutenant Colonel Ulysses G. Mc Alexander, United States Army, who has been commandant of cadets at the Oregon Agricultural College, a duty from which he was recently relieved, since that time having been attached to Oregon National Guard headquarters. also is expected to be a candidate for the post. SWAIN MAULED IN JAIL Husband Punishes Prisoner for At tentions Paid to His Wife. When Edward Ralston was placed in the same corridor in the County Jail with Earl Hanson Friday trouble brewed. For Ka,lston had been sent to Jail by Judge McGinn for failure to pay his divorced wife $30 a month, and the woman on whom he was alleged to have spent some of the money his wife didn t get was Mrs. Earl Hanson. Consequently Hanson appeared at breakfast yesterday morning with ugly cut on his lip, and Ralston hove on the scene with two blackened eyes It was a silent battle, for no one In the corridor was aroused. Hanson, who is 30 years old and weighs 190 pounds, is said to have provoked the fight with Ralston, who Is 50 years bid and weighs 40 pounds less. The older and lighte man came out unofficial victor. Hanson is in jail for non-support. OTHER GUARDSMEN LEAVE SINGLE TAX DEFEAT BY 100,000 LIKELY Assessor Reed Shows How Development Would Be Re- tarded by Measure. FEW WOULD OWN HOMES Portlanders Wonder at Their Deten tion at Calexlco After Washing ton and California Soldiers Are Mustered Out. Why. are the boys of Battery A de tained on the Mexican border with no apparent need for their services? This Is a Question that the families and friends of the boys at home in Portland are asking, and one that is giving the boys themselves more or less food for thought. Since President Wilson has tailed to follow his sensational mobilization of the troops with any move that looks to definite settlement of the Mexican problem, the members of Battery A are beginning to feel. It is reported, that their further detention on the border is distressing to them, annoying to their families and useless for the needs of the country. The sentiments of the men are pretty well expressed in the following letter Just received from a friend on the border after he had heard expressions of opinions from the battery members who, for obvious reasons, did not want their names used: Nation's Call Answered. "Four months ago President Wilson deemed the Mexican situation so criti cal that he felt Justified In dispatch ing the greater part of the National Guard to the border. This move was presumably for the purpose of pro tecting us against border raids by law less bands of Mexican bandits, and pos sibly armed Invasion of our territory by Carranzista forces. "A possibility of American interven tion in Mexican affairs was no longer in the background. But. what really happened? America was aroused. Never since the days of '98 was such a spirit shown. "Confident that the country was in urgent need of their services men everywhere rushed to the colors, sac rificing their positions, homes, their families need of them, and what not. for the sake of their patriotic duty. ae first military organization to actually reach the border and report for duty was Battery A, of Portland. This is a splendid bckly of men and is, without doubt, second to none among 11 the militia organizations In the United States. "I saw a number of these men calmly resign their positions when the mobili zation order came; others left their families, thus depriving them of their only means of support; some left par ents In destitute circumstances; In fact, one could go on Indefinitely citing numerous instances where great sacri fices were made by the militiamen. And those who have called these men tin soldiers. In derision, how much did they sacrifice? "Ever since July 1 has Battery A been stationed on the border at Calex lco, Cal., and after patient days and weeks, yes, months of hardships, drill, toil, excessive heat and. in fact, all that goes to make a soldier, the men of the battery are asking why they are compelled to remain longer while so many of the other troops have been ordered home. "In short, they have come to feel that they have done their part, and there is no Justification in their further de tention there. War Now Remote. "It cannot be said that a Mexican war is imminent, for such is not the case. Never since the Mexican trouble first began has there been a more re mote possibility of war than now. Press reports Indicate that the confer ence of American and Mexican com missioners on the Atlantic Coast has been satisfactorily concluded. At any rate. Calexico is in a peace able locality, and Governor Carter, of Lower jaiirornia, can 111 afford to Incur our ill favor, for his own best Interests lie in continued friendly- re lations with the United States. "Some may argue that it is the need of drill or experience that prohibits an early removal; or it may be said that the battery Is insufficiently equipped; but neither are sound argu ments. "Battery A is known to have a high rating at Washington In efficiency, and now, after their present experience on the border, they should be permitted to return to their respective walks in civil life, meantime holding their complete equipment which they have at present, and. upon resuming their regular drills at home, it may be seen that they could always be kept in a high state of pre paredness for time of war. "Were troubled conditions prevailing on the Canadian frontier it is not rea sonable to suppose that the War De partment would muster out the Wash ington troops and meanwhile detain Oregon or California troops there in their stead. Nevertheless this is Just! what is being done on the Southern California border, since practically all! of California's troops are ordered home 1 to be mustred out field artillery as well as infantry. "But In the meantime Battery A, of Portland, continues to remain on the Mexican border at Calexico. What do ' the people of Oregon think?" Revenue Kaised Would Not Provide for Governmental Expenses and Would Only Be Satisfactory -During Boom Periods. The full rental value land tax amend ment to the constitution will be over whelmingly defeated next Tuesday, ac cording to County Assessor Henry E. Reed, who has made an active cam paign against the measure. Mr. Reed estimates that the major ity against the amendment will be up wards of 100.000. He says it will be beaten worse than any other measure of similar character ever submitted to the people of Oregon. Four years ago a graduated land tax amendment was rejected by more than 60.000 majority. Two years ago an amendment providing a super tax on land was beaten by nearly too'. 000. This year's decisive defeat of the rental value Echeme. together with the fact that the Fela Fund Commission will go out' of existence on December 31. miv be expected to give Oregon some relief in the future from proposed legisla tion of this character. Billion In Property Included. In his addresses in various parts of the county. Assessor Reed has asked his audiences to bear In mind that the land-rent tax Is not only a proposed con stitutional amendment, but because of Its effect upon the sovereign power of taxation, practically proposes an entire new state constitution. It concerns the 800.000 people now in the state and property which the Tax Commission values in the neigh borhood of 1.5O0.000. 000. Notwithstanding the possible effects of the adoption. It has been drafted and put upon the ballot oy a small group of persons and recommended to the electorate as a cure-all for the ills of mankind. No conference of people in terested In tax legislation was called and no attempt made to ascertain the sentiment of the peopje at large with regard to the need of the measure. Paralysis of Development Forecast. One argument which Mr. Reed has used effectively is that the destruction of the selling value of land, which would be a logical consequence of the taking of the full ground rent, would paralyze agricultural development in Oregon through the medium of rural credits. Both the Federal farm loan act. now in force, and the pending rural credits amendment to the constitution of Ore gon, take the land value as the basis of loans on farm lands. Both lend upon the basis of 60 per cent of the value of the land, with an additional allowance by the Federal Government up to 20 per cent of the value of the permanent, insured lm- full ground rent, there would be no value to mortgage cither to Federal Government or the state for loans. As the laws of Oregon, if tl.e land rent amendment xhould be adopted, would not afford sufficient protection to mortgages of the kind authorized by the Federal farm loan act, it would be the duty of the Federal Govern ment to put Oregon In the list of in eligible states for farm loans, there to remain until it should recover from its dream of making land common prop erty by confiscating rent. Assessor Heed has impressed upon his audiences that Oregon should not spurn the chance now offered to co operate with the Federal Government in the development of agriculture. Tne iovernment. he says, will be able to lend money to farmers at u per cent on loans running from five to 40 years, which are better terms than can be obtained by the owners of the best retail land in the city of Portland. Ownership Not Eneoursa-ed. Under present condition farmers pay from SU to 9i per cent for their money on short-time loans, and are burdened with an interest charge which weighs them down and hampers their progress. Another argument made by Assessor Reed, which appeals strongly to home owners is that the amendment, if adopt ed, would not encourage home owner ship, as has been claimed by its spon sors and advocates. He has shown from official figures of the United States Government that tho percentage of owned farm homes in Oregon increased from So in 19u0 to xa.2 in 1910. In the City of Portland. the percentage of owned homes was 30.5 in 1S30. and 31.4 in 1900 and 46.3 in 1910. Portland Percentage lllaK. With the exception of Oakland. Cal.. and Spokane, Wash.. Portland has the greatest percentage of owned homes of any city in the United States, whose population exceeds 100.000. "Portland's progress in home making." says Mr. Reed, '"has been achieved under existing laws relating to the acquisition, ownership and taxa tion of land No legislation of the type of the pending amendment is re quired to encourage further advance ment in the direction of home-owning. In fact, such legislation tends to dis courage home-owning." Referring to the experiments with land taxation in Canada, whloh are ap provingly quoted by advocates of land rent legislation. Assessor Reed has shown that they have been confined mainly to young cities, which did not have the complex problem of vested rights to deal with. Vonnr Cities Try Scheme. Where the system of land taxation has been Introduced land values were Increasing rapidly and enormously, and the transition to the land tax was made under the favorable condition of an ex panding tax base. The same end could have been ac complished in Portland in the period of population increase and land de velopment, which followed upon the close of the Lewis and Clark Centen nial Exposition. However, the Canadian cities learned their lesson long before the outbreak of the general European war. With the coming of the business depression, which was common to Canada, as well as to the United States, the experience of the Canadian cities showed con clusively thpt land values cannot under all circumstances, be depended upon to supply in a satisfactory manner the necessary public revenue. Not Knonr0 Krrcnoe Provided. Such, also, would be the result In Oregon if the land rent tax should be approved by the people. The land rent tax would not provide the necessary public revenue for all the units of gov ernment within the state, and could not be made to do so. Summarizing his objections to the proposed amendment. Assessor Reed has set forth that the benefits which t promises would not accrue. They are A bulldintr liamilton F. Corbett Republican Nominee for State Representative Vote X 74 (Paid Advert Uemcnt.) provements. With the selling value of the land I visionary In the extreme. taken away by the Imposition of the boomlet might follow the adoption A the amendment, but it would be of short duration. There would not he continuous employment for labor through the stimulation of construc tion work for the Fimple reason that there is not an unlimited demand for buildinps. People would not be encouraged to go upon the land In times of stress and unemployment and be expected to make a living, because, without agricultural training, they would fail. Tho one sure effect of this adoption of the amendment would be to dis courage investments of any kind In real estate and retard the development of Oregon. JOSEPH CH0ATE HONORED riffy-Flve Years Ao Cleveland Olrl Bcrame Bride of I.awer. LENOX. 'Mass:. "Oct. CS. Kifty-fivo years acn Joseph H. Clioate was mar ried to Miss Caroliue Dutcher Sterling, of Cleveland. Ohio. Aside from con gratulatory telegrams from relatives, no special observance marked the day. Hoth Mr. and Mrs. Choate are in ex cellent health and are out every dty in their automobile. They expect to re main in Stockhrldge for a few days. Samuel W. McC-ill. Governor of Mas sachusetts. Mrs. M.Call and their two daughters. Misses Ruth and Katherine McCall. and Lieutenant-Governor Cal vin Coolidge are at Stockbridge. Arriving the other night were th Duke and Duchess de Richelieu, of Paris. Horse in Bole of Pickpocket. CLEVELAND. O.. Oct. 3. A heavy draught hose enacted a role of pick pocket In Allentown. Pa-, recently. The discovery was made by the driver, who. while driving along the street, saw a gold watch and chain dangling from the animal's tail. 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